 Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians through the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face.  Publications - Page 228by Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 362 pages
...property to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of ours to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the brave chieftains' faces. The slave of yesterday becomes the master... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 1256 pages
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wives VOL. II. Y n OOK an^ daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before VI. the great chieftain's... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 580 pages
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of ourmen to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wive* VOL. II. t BOOK .i" ' daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before VI. the great... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1830 - 414 pages
...a sermon by Lupus, a Saxon bishop. " Such is their valour, that one of them, •will put ten of us to flight : two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians from sea to sea. They seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and violate them before the chieftain's... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1836 - 626 pages
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1836 - 484 pages
...from a sermon by Lnpus, a Saxon bishop. " Such is their valor, that one of them will put ten of us to flight: two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians from sea to sea. They seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and violate them before the chieftain's... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Great Britain - 1836 - 484 pages
...a contemporary writer: — " Such is their (the Danes') valour, that one of them will put ten of us to flight ; two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians from sea to sea. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of his lord to-day. Soldiers, famine, flames,... | |
 | Britons - Great Britain - 1839 - 186 pages
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize, and cruelly abuse the wives and daughters of our thanes. The slave of yesterday becomes the master... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - Great Britain - 1839 - 480 pages
...Ethelred the Unready, says, in one of his Sermons, speaking of the Danes, "Two or three will always drive a troop of captive Christians through the country, from sea to sea. This also clearly intimates, that the Danes at this period still remained pagans, at least the greatest... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 pages
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of... | |
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